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About Me
- Joanna Bogle
- Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance. Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
God bless our new Pope Francis
1 comment:
On a side note...
I read your article "The “God-Bearer” -- Advent-Christmas 2009" about Saint Ignatius of Antioch who was born about year 50 in Syria.
In it you state "His life actually overlapped with that of Our Lord and the Apostles — tradition says that he was one of the children whom Christ picked up and blessed as described in the Scriptures: “Let the little children come to me....”
Auntie Joanna, could you please explain exactly how a saint who was born in Syria about the year 50 could have been physically embraced by Christ who was crucified and died at least 15 years earlier? Even the Catholic encyclopedia recognizes this assertion as "without good reason".
We don't want this to go wizzing around the world on the internet do we? :)
Thanks and God Bless!
Tim
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